Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Despite the Supreme Court directions issued to various state governments, including Haryana, to set up solid waste management plants, the plant project here has been hanging fire due to red tapism and the apathy of officials of the Local Bodies Department and the Pollution Control Board. Recently, the Kaithal Municipal …
KANPUR: The municipal corporation is planning to introduce capsules made of fibre to collect garbage. "We are introducing clean green capsule for collecting the garbage. We had been asked to develop clean green houses so that garbage could not be spread on the roads," municipal commissioner RN Bajpai said. Giving …
Not getting any respite from pollution emanating from unprocessed solid waste being dumped by Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) near Nakravadi village, residents of this village along with the adjoining ones have threatened to boycott the Lok Sabha polls. Besides Nakravadi, the residents of Pipaliya, Nagalpar, Khijadiya, Rajgadh, Sokhda and Hadmatiya …
With elections and campaigning out of the way, environment minister Alina Saldanha will soon convene a meeting to review the management of garbage in Goa and importantly to get more village panchayats to actively participate in garbage management. Saldanha told TOI that the elections seemed to have caused some slack …
The transformation of Sanjay Lake from a wetland or a breeding ground for water birds into an artificial polluted lake is a cause of concern for environmentalists as well as residents of Mayur Vihar Phase –II. According to Brijendra Singh, who goes for a morning walk to the lake every …
Goa's 19-month-old ban on mining notwithstanding, Mulgao's agricultural fields and horticultural plantations, once thriving sources of livelihood for its residents, continue to reel under the aftereffects of three decades of ore extraction in the region. After all, 758.39 ha and portions adjacent to Mayem, Poira, Lamgao, Bordem and Bicholim are …
The garbage enclosures are being used as public conveniences in several places The grouping of garbage bins by installing enclosures may have partly helped in covering up overflowing garbage from public eye, but it has resulted in nuisance of a different kind. The enclosures are now being used as public …
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will soon install three stations to continuously monitor ambient air quality in the city. “Orders have already been placed for the equipment costing Rs. 6 crore,” said a source in the TNPCB. The advanced equipment, which will record 12 parameters including Ammonia, Ozone …
The civic body has an uphill task in hand - the problem of dumping of piles of garbage with its plan to distribute decomposed waste as fertilizer to farmers free of cost finding no takers. About three lakh tonnes of garbage are piling up at the Kasba Bawada site for …
A few kilometres away from the manicured green lawns and rows of neat flower beds of Lutyen’s Delhi, staff of the Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash and GB Pant Hospitals and residents around the area are fighting to beat the stink from the rotting garbage collected at the ‘dhalao’ – government-run …
Three years after the garbage treatment plant at Vilappilsala was shut down, the city corporation formally put an end to all financial deals pertaining to the plant. All the files related to the processes undertaken at Vilappilsala were permanently shelved on the final day of 2013-14 fiscal. The civic body …
Overflowing litter affecting health of residents as well as stray cattle Open containers overflowing with garbage continue to affect the health of residents as well as stray cattle in the city. The Municipal Corporation (MC) has installed hundreds of garbage containers in various parts of the city, but regular disposal …
Garbage, silt and dirty filters characterise the over 120 rain water harvesting systems (RWHSs) set up at its stations by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, while other government authorities like the Delhi Jal Board, the Public Works Department and other government hospitals have been found to be no better. The …
Wastes at the Vellalore dump yard are being processed according to rules, said Coimbatore Corporation in its response to a Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board directive. The board in its proceedings on December 26, 2013 said that after its Member Secretary inspected the Vellalore yard, it was found that though …
Environment protection groups, Save Bangalore Lakes Trust (SBLT) and Namma Bengaluru Foundation (NBF), have brought out a report on the encroachment of lakes in the City. The report, titled ‘Phase 1-Lake Encroachment Report,’ has been compiled after surveying 43 lakes. It essentially contains information on the total area, encroachment, BBMP …
Bangalore is at that stage in Solid waste management, where it is trying to come up with appropriate methods to handle waste. To make relevant decisions regarding handling and disposal of municipal solid waste, and to come up with appropriate waste heirarchy, it is important to understand the composition, properties …
This Time It’s Because Of LS Elections Lucknow: After delay of almost a year, the city has to wait for two more months to get the municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment plant operational in Shivri village. The plant was launched under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission scheme in …
Heaps of hospital wastes, piling up at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), are turning out to be a serious health hazard for visitors to the hospital, besides causing environmental pollution in the area. The alarm was sounded by the officials of the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) when …
After Pallavaram, Kuthambakkam, Poonamallee and Kallakurichi, Sembakkam has joined the list of neighbourhoods whose residents have moved the national green tribunal against the dumping of garbage in their backyards. Located near Tambaram, Sembakkam is one of the areas in the suburbs experiencing a real estate boom due to IT growth. …
The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, on Tuesday ordered notice to authorities on a plea to stop dumping and burning of garbage at the Sembakkam lake. Admitting an application filed by four resident welfare associations, including the Sembakkam Civic Welfare Association, the Bench comprising Justice M. Chockalingam and Prof. R. …
